Crawley Borough Council’s first Passivhaus development, designed by Accredited Passivhaus Design (part of The Tooley & Foster Partnership), has been completed and certified to the Passivhaus Standard.

Gales Place in Three Bridges provides 13 new affordable homes – six flats and seven houses – for local residents. Each property is so thermally efficient that a radiator and two towel rails will heat it even in mid-winter.

The development is located on a complex site and provides a new urban space next to an existing community centre, safe routes to the adjacent primary school a...

As Crawley Borough Council’s first affordable Passivhaus housing project – Gales Place, Crawley – nears completion, the Council has confirmed its commitment to Passivhaus by agreeing to build a second scheme to the Certified Passivhaus Standard.

The Tooley & Foster Partnership are architects for Gales Place and Accredited Passivhaus Design is providing Passivhaus Consultancy and PHPP modelling. TFP and APD are also working on the new development: Dobbins Place, Ifield, Crawley.

Dobbins Place will consist of four houses and two flats, all with two bedrooms. The development will ove...

Accredited Passivhaus Design, part of The Tooley & Foster Partnership, has been appointed to carry out a Passivhaus Proof of Concept project for Community Health Partnerships, a part of the NHS.

Based on the Passivhaus analysis of a recently built health centre in Coventry, this project seeks to establish that building new health centres to the Passivhaus standard will be cost effective over a period of 25 years. By assisting GPs to move to energy efficient new health centres, improved services can be delivered to patients.